Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-07-21
The Battle Flags and the Trade Out
look.

The Dry Goods Reporter and United
States Economist, the leading mercan-
tile newspaper of the nation, thus dis
courses upon the battle flag incident,
and the trade outlook. 1t SAYS:
A great howl has been raised in GER
tain quarters over the Presidents i'll
advised battle flag order (now rescind-
ed.) The biatherskites who are try
ing to disturb the country and make
political capital out of this incident
should be treated with supreme con-
tempt by all loyal and right minded
citizens. The outlo9k in trade and
commerce was never so promising as il
is to-day, and our country seems to be
entering upon all era oflong hoped for
prosperity. And now come the dema-
gogues and partisans eager to disturb
the harmonious and peaceful relations
that exist between the South and the
North with their criminal tomfoolery.
We say-down with them. No coun-
tenance should be given to these dis
tubers. The country is not i'm any dam
ger. No man in his senses will believe
that President Cleveland is not a good
and loyal citizen.
We publish below an open letter to
General Fairchild, written by an old
veteran, General Burdett, formerly
Commander of the Grand Army, is au-
thority of the statement that Gen.
Fairchild intends to present at the st.
Louis meeting report, made up of
letters received from nearly all the
posts in the country strongly condemn
ing the Presidents veto of the Pauper
Pension bill. Hinc lilac lacrimae, says
an old Latin proverb. Hence those
tears! That veto seems to rankle in
the breasts of many members of the G.
A. H., who cannot forgive the President
for having spoiled their chance to get
their hands into the public treasury.
Here Is an open letter to Gen. Fair
child:
To General Luctats FdirchiId:
II write to you as commander-in-
Chief Oft the G. A. R. I am member
of that organization, and am mortified
and indignant to read in the press the
bitter and unpatriotic words attributed
to you, and said to have been uttered in
A. Hamilton Post, 1s2, G.. A. R., in
New York, on the 18th instant. AS a
partisan Republican you may have a
right to speak such language, but not as
the commander of an organization
which is supposed to consist of true and
loyal Union ex-soldiers, and which is
non-partisan, or should be. deny you
the right to speak thus for that organi-
zation, and say to you that you, its
commander, have violated its first fun
damental principal of loyalty and non
partisanship in your denunciation Oft
PresidenS And for what? Because it is
said that he has directed that the old
battle flags of Southern troops be re-
stored to their respective States, where
they properly belong. Why should
any true patriot and soldier desire that
these mementoes of the bloody strife be
Kept in the national halls as reminders
of a conquered South-a portion of our
common country? Why not rather de-
sire that harmony and union, peace and
prosperity be fostered in every way? /
am q member of the G.. A. r. I proba-
bly, did my duty as we'll and commanded
as many soldiers as you, and I believe
tens of thousands of the "bravest and
best" ex-soldiers will denounce your
language as I do.
Respectfully, etc., E. BIERER,
Late Colonel One Hundred and Sew
enty-first Pennsylvania"